“BLIND CHEMISTRY: Hands as Atoms & Fingers as Bonds”. CONTINUED.

 

Here I present: “BLIND CHEMISTRY: Hands as Atoms & Fingers as Bonds”. CONTINUED.

INTRODUCTION.

The two (2) most basic ideas in chemistry are: chemical letter script of Lavoisier, and the group formula of Mendeleev.  These two (2) concepts essential for sighted or blind students.

Hands as atoms: fingers as bonds conveys the three primitives of space, scale & navigation.

Ball & Stick models use five (5) holes.  Hand as atoms: fingers as bonds, with educational model kits sold everywhere.

The grasping of the concepts of Lavoisier & Mendeleev is just “sticking your five (5)  fingers into a bowling ball”.